Will Mason
@willmasonmusic.com
Musician and composer • assoc. professor of music, Skidmore College • “experimental yet still catchy” — New York Times • repost = 👀
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Will Mason
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· Jan 10
Will Mason - Hemlocks (score follower) feat. Anna Webber, Daniel Fisher-Lochhead, deVon Russell Gray
YouTube video by Will Mason
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My latest album is out today on @newfocuslabel.bsky.social. It's called "Hemlocks, Peacocks" and features Anna Webber, Daniel Fisher-Lochhead, deVon Russell Gray, and me. I made a score follower video for the first track for those who are curious.
youtu.be/RSKcnoVlcwU?...
youtu.be/RSKcnoVlcwU?...
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Jacobin 🤜🤛 Rod Dreher
“What if the Combahee River Collective is to blame for Nick Fuentes?”
“What if the Combahee River Collective is to blame for Nick Fuentes?”
December 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Jacobin 🤜🤛 Rod Dreher
“What if the Combahee River Collective is to blame for Nick Fuentes?”
“What if the Combahee River Collective is to blame for Nick Fuentes?”
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.@PVDMayor tells reporters a person of interest in yesterday’s shooting at @BrownUniversity has been detained
December 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM
.@PVDMayor tells reporters a person of interest in yesterday’s shooting at @BrownUniversity has been detained
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a fav 2025 record you may have missed iykyk
avaluna.bandcamp.com/album/ava-luna
avaluna.bandcamp.com/album/ava-luna
Ava Luna, by Ava Luna
11 track album
avaluna.bandcamp.com
December 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM
a fav 2025 record you may have missed iykyk
avaluna.bandcamp.com/album/ava-luna
avaluna.bandcamp.com/album/ava-luna
I saw “green room” at a theater in Manhattan with an otherwise very quiet crowd but during the scene with the red shoe laces every single person in the room visibly recoiled if not screamed. It was awesome.
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
It was hands-down one of the most memorable theater-going experiences I can remember, a collective 30-minute butt-clench/armrest-grab for the final climb. And we knew he lived! Wild.
December 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I saw “green room” at a theater in Manhattan with an otherwise very quiet crowd but during the scene with the red shoe laces every single person in the room visibly recoiled if not screamed. It was awesome.
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In terms of US politics, Bush v. Gore is the defining event of the century. It set the template: a ruthless right that instinctively seeks power & doesn't give a shit about rule of law...and a bunch of hapless, feckless octogenarian Dems worried about the good opinion of centrist opinion columnists.
The 25th anniversary of Bush v Gore is today. The conspiracy mongering & corruption of the GOP has been brewing for a long time.
Roberts, Barrett and Kavanaugh were all on Bush's legal team, where they pushed unfounded legal theories. SC justices were already enmeshed in voter fraud myths.
Roberts, Barrett and Kavanaugh were all on Bush's legal team, where they pushed unfounded legal theories. SC justices were already enmeshed in voter fraud myths.
Here's Sandra Day O'Connor endorsing News Max levels of voter fraud conspiracies in the 2000 election.
December 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
In terms of US politics, Bush v. Gore is the defining event of the century. It set the template: a ruthless right that instinctively seeks power & doesn't give a shit about rule of law...and a bunch of hapless, feckless octogenarian Dems worried about the good opinion of centrist opinion columnists.
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Good to know that David Frum is always on the wrong side
December 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Good to know that David Frum is always on the wrong side
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MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
December 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
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ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
December 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
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WOW. So this is obviously a huge violation of this man's rights, and it illustrates a few things we're seeing broadly:
- DHS officers are ignoring peoples' IDs and instead requiring screening through their own systems
- Confirms @404media.co's reports of use of DHS's facial recognition app.
- DHS officers are ignoring peoples' IDs and instead requiring screening through their own systems
- Confirms @404media.co's reports of use of DHS's facial recognition app.
December 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM
WOW. So this is obviously a huge violation of this man's rights, and it illustrates a few things we're seeing broadly:
- DHS officers are ignoring peoples' IDs and instead requiring screening through their own systems
- Confirms @404media.co's reports of use of DHS's facial recognition app.
- DHS officers are ignoring peoples' IDs and instead requiring screening through their own systems
- Confirms @404media.co's reports of use of DHS's facial recognition app.
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a belief that liberals are not in spiritual communion with the white working class, which is held as the virtuous repository of american identity.
December 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
a belief that liberals are not in spiritual communion with the white working class, which is held as the virtuous repository of american identity.
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Effectively closes our borders. Feature, not a bug I guess.
December 10, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Effectively closes our borders. Feature, not a bug I guess.
Dorico: "We are going to fix all the worst parts of other engraving software."
"So you're not going to bury the audio playback settings in six russian nesting doll sub-menus, right?"
"Oh no we are absolutely keeping that."
"So you're not going to bury the audio playback settings in six russian nesting doll sub-menus, right?"
"Oh no we are absolutely keeping that."
December 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Dorico: "We are going to fix all the worst parts of other engraving software."
"So you're not going to bury the audio playback settings in six russian nesting doll sub-menus, right?"
"Oh no we are absolutely keeping that."
"So you're not going to bury the audio playback settings in six russian nesting doll sub-menus, right?"
"Oh no we are absolutely keeping that."
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I mean, in what sense will you be able to say the college “survived”?
December 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I mean, in what sense will you be able to say the college “survived”?
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There are a lot of big questions at play here, but the most fundamental might be: what is the point of college?
December 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
There are a lot of big questions at play here, but the most fundamental might be: what is the point of college?
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This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
If you are providing me with an education that is low utility in the world then it’s a disservice. My composition class spent four weeks on poetry. I’m sorry, but that only would’ve been useful if I wanted to be a poet. I don’t need to know iambic pentameter in order to be a victim advocate.
December 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
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it’s been pretty funny to see Polis’ addiction to posting completely end any discussion of him as a potential 2028 candidate
December 7, 2025 at 10:28 PM
it’s been pretty funny to see Polis’ addiction to posting completely end any discussion of him as a potential 2028 candidate
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From 400-year-old globes to cosmic funeral shrouds, how the Osher Map Library in Maine shows people that maps aren't just for navigation — but windows into history, culture, and how we see the world. n.pr/44Ognqv
From 400-year-old globes to cosmic shrouds: A Maine library brings maps to life
From 400-year-old globes to cosmic funeral shrouds, how the Osher Map Library in Maine shows people that maps aren't just for navigation — but windows into history, culture, and how we see the world.
n.pr
December 7, 2025 at 11:29 AM
From 400-year-old globes to cosmic funeral shrouds, how the Osher Map Library in Maine shows people that maps aren't just for navigation — but windows into history, culture, and how we see the world. n.pr/44Ognqv
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The entire debate over birthright citizenship is anti-constitutional because the purpose, intent, and text of the 14th Amendment were designed to foreclose any argument about who counts as an American citizen.
December 5, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The entire debate over birthright citizenship is anti-constitutional because the purpose, intent, and text of the 14th Amendment were designed to foreclose any argument about who counts as an American citizen.
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A wealth tax is a big tent policy unless the only people you care about are billionaires.
Gov. @gavinnewsom says he disagrees with Mayor @zohrankmamdani about the need for a wealth tax on billionaires, which he is “adamantly against” - says Dems are a “big tent party” with both views.
More on the CA proposal: www.sacbee.com/news/politic...
More on the CA proposal: www.sacbee.com/news/politic...
December 5, 2025 at 3:34 AM
A wealth tax is a big tent policy unless the only people you care about are billionaires.
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@willmasonmusic.com et al - newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/hemloc...
I guess I tend to think of (western) microtonal music as programmed or else intricately, painstakingly laid out and performed in the manner of automatons. the boldly evident physicality of the (v impressive, understated)--
I guess I tend to think of (western) microtonal music as programmed or else intricately, painstakingly laid out and performed in the manner of automatons. the boldly evident physicality of the (v impressive, understated)--
Hemlocks, Peacocks, by Will Mason Quartet
7 track album
newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
@willmasonmusic.com et al - newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/hemloc...
I guess I tend to think of (western) microtonal music as programmed or else intricately, painstakingly laid out and performed in the manner of automatons. the boldly evident physicality of the (v impressive, understated)--
I guess I tend to think of (western) microtonal music as programmed or else intricately, painstakingly laid out and performed in the manner of automatons. the boldly evident physicality of the (v impressive, understated)--
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Incredible optics here, really underscores it all.
Trump, continued: "What the Somalian people have done to Minnesota is not even believable. It’s not even believable. And a lot of it starts with the governor. A lot of it starts with Barack HUSSEIN Obama, because that’s when people started coming in... They want to kiss our country good night."
December 3, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Incredible optics here, really underscores it all.
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After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts
www.nber.org/papers/w34524
via @florianederer.bsky.social
www.nber.org/papers/w34524
via @florianederer.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 1:42 AM
After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts
www.nber.org/papers/w34524
via @florianederer.bsky.social
www.nber.org/papers/w34524
via @florianederer.bsky.social
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This is an ethnic cleansing campaign
Officials prepare immigration operation in Minnesota that would focus on Somali immigrants, source tells AP, as Trump says he doesn't want Somalis in U.S.
Federal authorities plan operation in Minnesota focusing on Somali immigrants, AP source says
Federal authorities are preparing an immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota, focusing on Somali immigrants living unlawfully in the U.S.
bit.ly
December 3, 2025 at 12:27 AM
This is an ethnic cleansing campaign